pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
amused themselves
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The kids amused themselves playing hide-and-seek.
purging themselves
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Anorexics may overeat before purging themselves or vomiting.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
among yourselves/ourselves/themselves
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Augie and I sat alone, and only Bob Cuffy came to talk to us, the others remaining among themselves.
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Bioethicists disagree among themselves, both in the clinical setting and on matters of public policy.
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But they might, just might, talk among themselves.
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First, if the political parties can not reach agreement among themselves, the President must become involved in the negotiations.
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People began to talk among themselves, others to drift off.
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The Huntington Beach mayor is chosen by council members from among themselves by seniority.
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The jockeys then completed nearly a circuit at a gradually increasing pace before deciding among themselves to pull up.
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We know that many among ourselves have given themselves to bondage that they might ransom others.
give sb enough rope to hang themselves
go fuck yourself/himself/themselves etc
save sb from themselves
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There also was a subtle shift in defensive emphasis and a major one on offense that combined to save them from themselves.
sb has to pinch themselves
speak for itself/themselves
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He's a good coach - his success speaks for itself.
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Again, we begin by letting the managers speak for themselves.
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But the history of the family speaks for itself.
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I think the above account speaks for itself.
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Kahn believed that his work spoke for itself.
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The account mainly speaks for itself.
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The arrangement seemed to speak for itself: Alice, the true love.
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They simply put it out and let the music speak for itself.
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Yet the belief that a videotape somehow speaks for itself persisted.
take sb out of themselves
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Ain't you ever heard of taking people out of themselves?
the facts speak for themselves
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She obviously knows what she's doing - the facts speak for themselves.
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Autoseeker speaks to the thief - the facts speak for themselves.
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Concerning investigation into the conditions endured by animals in laboratories, the facts speak for themselves.
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In such a case the purchaser may plead res ipsa loquitur - the facts speak for themselves.
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Mark answered in the traditional matter-of-fact manner, parading all the relevant factors and letting the facts speak for themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Do you think they killed themselves ?
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Everyone I know who has tried it has hurt themselves somehow.
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Those guys only talk about themselves .
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Why don't they just do it themselves ?